Seagate 160 GB SATA (ST3160023AS)

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Brian Kristensen
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Seagate
May. 15, 2004

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WinBench 99

WinBench 99 is a sub-system-level benchmark which measures the performance of many components within your PC. For our purposes, we will be taking a look at the Business Disk WinMark 99 and the High End Disk WinMark 99.

WinBench 99
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Business Disk WinMark

High End Disk WinMark

Seagate 160 GB SATA (Single)

Maxtor 200 GB PATA (Single)

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 0

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 1

18000

14200

20500

18500

(Score)

60000

Business Disk WinMark

High End Disk WinMark

Seagate 160 GB SATA (Single)

Maxtor 200 GB PATA (Single)

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 0

2x Seagate SATA in RAID 1

40600

40200

50500

34800

(Score)

60000

During the Business Disk WinMark test the Seagate drive out-performs the Maxtor alone, and in both RAID modes. The highest performance is held by the Seagate drives in RAID 0. During the High End Disk WinMark test, the Maxtor catches up to the single Seagate drive. Here we also see a decent jump in performance while in RAID 0, and a drop in performance while in RAID 1.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A Closer Look
Page 3: Test System / Benchmarks
Page 4: Benchmarks: HD Tach 2.7
Page 5: Benchmarks: Disk Bench 2.2
Page 6: Benchmarks: WinBench 99
Page 7: Conclusion

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by EmoMakesMeCry on May 16, 2004 - 12:44 pm

i have the seagate 120 gig version of that drive and absolutely love it. it doesnt perform any better than my 160 PATA master drive, but it is extremely quiet and doesn't emit enough heat to worry about. i really can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd generation drives to come out though.
*insert greedy laugh here*

2 - Posted by greymatter on July 19, 2004 - 9:50 am

I too own the 120GB Seagate drive and it's without a doubt the best drive I have ever owned. The performance jump, while small, has it where it counts. Moving multiple files and defragging is noticeably faster with this SATA over my other IDE still installed. I have previously run with quite a few IBM Deskstars which I also consider to be a rock solid drive and this Seagate has it beat. Great product.

I definitely second Emo though and can't wait for the next generation drives to start my HTPC project. :wink:

3 - Posted by Guest on July 12, 2005 - 11:25 am

Your board is limiting the performance. Why didn't you use the raid card that was sent?

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